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In a previous article about EmThemes.com I discussed some of the great products and services from EMThemes.com and gave you a 10% off coupon.  Due to the success of that offer, our friends at EmThemes have kindly agreed to extend the coupon until the 12th December 2010.  So hurry and grab yourself a great offer ready for the Christmas period.  All you have to do is click here and use ‘screencastworld‘ as the discount code during the checkout process. In the coming weeks I hope to write some detailed product reviews for some of the themes, templates, and extensions from EMThemes.com so stay...

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You'll be pleased to know that ScreencastWorld has secured a 10% saving on all Premium Magento Themes, Templates, and Extensions from EMThemes.com.  All you have to do is click here and use 'screencastworld' as the discount code during the checkout process.  Hurry!  This offer is only valid until the 31st October 2010. Who are EMThemes EMThemes is a relatively new to Magento world, but the company behind EMThemes, QuickSolution, has a long established web design and developer history.  In addition to the templates and extensions, EMThemes also offers Magento Installation Services, where they...

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If you navigate to System -> Magento Connect -> Maganeto Connect Manager and find no packages listed similar to that shown in the following screenshot, it means that you've not initialised PEAR yet.  This can happen if you used the full distribution bundle to install Magento.  If you used the 'Downloader' option then PEAR will have been initialised and used to download and install the necessary packages. To resolve the issue all you have to do is initialise PEAR by running the following commands via SSH on your web server: [code] <pre>./pear mage-setup ./pear install magento-core/Mage_All_Latest [/code] If...

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If you try to upgrade Magento using the command line PEAR interface you may encounter the following: [code] ./pear mage-setup Running initial setup... Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We had to select 'UTC' because your platform doesn't provide functionality for the guessing algorithm in Registry.php on line...

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I recently came across the situation where I was no longer unable to access the Magento Connect area of a previously working installation of Magento.  After logging in to the backend and going to System -> Magento Connect -> Magento Connect Manager I got the following error (note: I had "ini_set('display_errors', 1);" uncommented in my index.php file). [code lang="php"] Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/WWW/mysite/magentocommerce/downloader/pearlib/php/PEAR.php' (include_path='/WWW/solargizmo.co.uk/magentocommerce/downloader/pearlib/php:/WWW/mysite/magentocommerce/app/code/local:/WWW/solargizmo.co.uk/magentocommerce/app/code/community:/WWW/solargizmo.co.uk/magentocommerce/app/code/core:/WWW/solargizmo.co.uk/magentocommerce/lib:.:/var/php/5.2/pear')...

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After what appeared to be a successful upgrade from 1.3.4.2 to 1.4.1.0 using the command line, I was unable to login to the Admin area.  Instead it displayed the following report: [code] a:5:{i:0;s:31:"Invalid mode for clean() method";i:1;s:2982:"#0 /www/www.yourdomain.com/magento/app/code/core/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php(532): Zend_Cache::throwException('Invalid mode fo...') #1 /www/www.yourdomain.com/magento/app/code/core/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php(538): Zend_Cache_Backend_File->_clean('/www/www.solarg...', 'matchingAnyTag', Array) #2 /www/www.yourdomain.com/magento/app/code/core/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php(279):...

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If you've just upgraded your Magento Commerce site to the 1.4.x release from a 1.3.x release, and you forgot to change the theme/template to the default one before you performed the upgrade, you'll probably end up with a blank white screen. The first thing to do is enable debugging by uncommenting the following line in your 'index.php' file: === index.php === ini_set('display_errors', 1); === END === If you refresh the webpage now, you'll still see a blank page, but go and check your webserver error_log and you may see something like this: [code] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal...

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After cloning a Magento Commerce Website, it presented me with a blank page and the message "Unable detect system directory: report".  The message implies that Magento needs to create an error report, because of a failure of some kind, but has an issue creating the report in "magento/var/report". The magento/var/report directory existed, was owned by the web server user/group,  and had 'rw-r-r' (744) permissions, so this wasn't the cause of my problem. I then set about enable debug output by editing index.php and uncomment the following two lines === index.php === Mage::setIsDeveloperMode(true); ini_set('display_errors',...

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I was recently upgrading a Magento installation from 1.3.2.4 to 1.4.1.0 using the fresh installation technique, which I'll discuss in an upcoming video tutorial.  After entering the database name, username & password in the 'Configuration' area, I got the "Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons" message. Upon checking the error report I found the following: [code lang="php"] a:5:{i:0;s:263:"Error in file: "/WWW/mydomain.com/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Sales/sql/sales_setup/mysql4-upgrade-0.9.51-0.9.52.php" - SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access...

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In any normal software development cycle you would design, develop, and test your site on a test/dev web server to ensure all issues are resolved before you upload the new version of the site to your production server.  You should use this approach whether you're making small or large changes to your site as it's easier to find and resolve issues before your customers do!  There's nothing worse than making changes to your live site only to find that the changes break some or all of the site.  If your site is down, you're not making money! So in this post I thought I'd walk you through how to clone...

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